Pleuroxia

Pleuroxia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Hadrinae of the family Camaenidae. [2]

Pleuroxia
Shell of Pleuroxia cyrtopleura (lectotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Infraorder: Helicoidei
Superfamily: Helicoidea
Family: Camaenidae
Genus: Pleuroxia
Ancey 1887[1]
Type species
Helix cyrtopleura L. Pfeiffer, 1862
Synonyms
  • Angasella A. Adams in Angas, 1864 (not used after 1899 as erroneously considered a homonym of Angasiella Crosse, 1864)
  • Angasietta Iredale, 1939
  • Gantomia Iredale, 1939

Species

Species within the genus Pleuroxia include:

  • Pleuroxia abstans Iredale, 1939
  • Pleuroxia carmeena G.A. Solem, 1993
  • Pleuroxia clydonigera R. Tate, 1894
  • Pleuroxia cyrtopleura (Pfeiffer, 1862)
  • Pleuroxia everardensis (Bednall, 1892)
  • Pleuroxia italowiana Solem, 1992
  • Pleuroxia lemani G.P.L.K. Gude, 1916
  • Pleuroxia overlanderensis G.A. Solem, 1997
  • Pleuroxia phillipsiana (Angas, 1873)
Synonyms
  • Pleuroxia adcockiana (Bednall, 1894): synonym of Granulomelon adcockianum (Bednall, 1894)
  • Pleuroxia arcigerens Tate, 1894: synonym of Granulomelon adcockianum (Bednall, 1894)
  • Pleuroxia bethana Solem, 1997: synonym of Basedowena bethana (Solem, 1997) (original combination)
  • Pleuroxia commenta Iredale, 1939: synonym of Basedowena polypleura (Tate, 1899) (junior synonym)
  • Pleuroxia cooperi Cotton, 1939: synonym of Pleuroxia phillipsiana (Angas, 1873) (junior synonym)
  • Pleuroxia elfina Iredale, 1939: synonym of Basedowena elfina (Iredale, 1939)
  • Pleuroxia hinsbyi Gude, 1916: synonym of Basedowena hinsbyi (Gude, 1916) (superseded combination)
  • Pleuroxia mawsoni Iredale, 1937: synonym of Cooperconcha mawsoni (Iredale, 1937) (original combination)
  • Pleuroxia musga Iredale, 1937: synonym of Tatemelon musgum (Iredale, 1937) (original combination)
  • Pleuroxia oligopleura (Tate, 1894): synonym of Basedowena oligopleura (Tate, 1894)
  • Pleuroxia polypleura (Tate, 1899): synonym of Basedowena polypleura (Tate, 1899)
  • Pleuroxia radiata (Hedley, 1905): synonym of Basedowena radiata (Hedley, 1905)
  • Pleuroxia ruga otton, 1953: synonym of Strepsitaurus rugus (Cotton, 1953) (original combination)

References

  1. Ancey C. M. F. (1887). Conch. Exchange 2: 38.
  2. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Pleuroxia Ancey, 1887. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818486 on 2022-01-31


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